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(No Model.)

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N0.'-414,99Z. Patented Nov. 12, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.-

JAMES PATON, OF JOHNSTONE, COUNTY OF RENFREWV, SCOTLAND.

CASE FOR EXHIBIITING SHOE-LACES, 81.0.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 414,992, dated November 12, 1889.

Application filed February 12, 1889. Serial No. 299,594. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES PATON, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain and Ire- Y each side of a central partition a ,a partition with a broad top strap a separating each compartment a from the others and retaining the laces. The laces or goods are placed in hanks within the compartments a and exposed to View. A lid A is formed on the case A for covering the compartments a in transit or when not exposed to View, and a loop-cord is passed through eyelets at A on this lid A fOFllEHlgillg it to a nail or catch and allow the open case A and compartments a to hang in a vertical manner with the hanks of laces exposed to view; or, as shown in the drawings, the lid A may be opened up and the box A be placed in a fiat plane or table with the goods horizontally exposed to. View.

What I claim is The show-case for holding and exhibiting laces for boots and shoes and suchlike goods, consisting of a box divided into compartments by partitions with top straps or located on the top of and extending beyond the edges of the partition-strips, and having a folding lid, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my'name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES PATON.

Witnesses:

W. R. M. THOMSON, JOHN SIME, Bath of 96 Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Scot and. 

